... son spent his summers developing a life-long passion for hunting and fishing apart from middle-class society. Acting as a counterweight, Hemingway's mother tried to instill conventional values in her children in the designated role of the family as disciplinarian. She insisted that her son attend church ... Protestant work ethic values of mainstream, Anglo-Saxon Americans during the Progressive era. Hemingway appears to have rankled at the strictures that his mother's sense of moral order imposed upon him. She was forceful if not domineering with Ernest. A major rift arose between them w...

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... would be ensured of success in whatever field he chose (Wilson 1). As a boy, he was taught by his father to hunt and fish. When he wasn't hunting or fishing his mother taught him the finer points of music. Hemingway never had a knack for music and suffered through choir practices and cello lessons, however the musical knowledge he acquired from his ... mother helped him share in his first wife Hadley's interest in the piano (1). Hemingway received his formal schooling in the Oak Park public school system. In high school he was mediocre ... for Europe in May (2). When Hemingway returne...

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